Quotes About Knowledge

No man was ever wise by chance.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

Science is wisdom reduced to practice.

The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

Let the people know my wisdom, fill the land with smoke

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.